An autopsy found blunt force trauma to the woman's neck, leading to the homicide finding.
The prosecutor said the crime of criminal homicide is excluded from juvenile law, requiring that the boy be charged as an adult.
"The family is obviously an emotional wreck to have their 10-year-old removed from them and to know he is in a county correctional facility charged as an adult," [the boy's attorney] Brown said.
I'd imagine the kid's own family, that reported the crime, recognizes this kid is even a threat to them. And that while they feel sadness over his incarceration, they at least did not cover up for a killer, and enable him to kill more people.
Would that the court had less sympathy for the kid, and more concern for the woman he killed, and the people he will kill in the future, if given the chance.
Are we now "too civilized" to kill a killer?
I've never understood the defense of "mentally unfit to stand trial". Whether the person had full cold-blooded premeditation, or killed someone in a moment of rage, or delusion, they still present the same murderous threat to people around them. And perhaps mentally "unfit" people are even more dangerous, because they can kill unexpectedly, without the normal predictable triggers that could be anticipated would escalate to violence.
